Tag Archives: Teh Internet

Mar 05

the progression of the internet is funny

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Benny just published a post on her site about WP and caching. It makes me chuckle to think about, because essentially the web has come full-circle.
The web was first populated by sites that were all static html pages.
Then, someone thought of using databases and a whole bunch of other neat things to make websites “dynamic” – meaning, you didn’t have to spend hours tediously re-writing static html to make a change across your whole site.
Then, these dynamic sites were great, but if the site was popular, then you needed to back it up with a shit-ton of hardware and load balancing and etc, etc in case you had a lot of visitors.
Now, caching (turning the dynamic site back into simple static html) keeps sites light and serving to millions of visitors.
Strange, innit?

Jul 07

WordPress for Blackberry

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Just installed the new WordPress app on my Blackberry. This should prove to be fun.

Already found at least 1 problem, not all of my ‘Pages’ show up in the page list. Seems like it picked 5 random ones out of the 16 I have (total, I have 6 published, 6 drafts, and 4 private).

Apr 01

Longing for a simpler time.

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Remember when all websites were just text and hyperlinks and maybe a few images? Now everybody has to have some crazy php-based content management system application (yeah, yeah, pot-kettle-black, I know). Working in the webhosting industry and specifically, in Security, has really made me long for those simpler times again. Sure, editing html is tedious and time-consuming, but its pretty rock-solid safe once its web-accessible. Nobody can exploit flaws in your plain html code to send spam, upload phishing sites, or kill other webservers.

Mar 07

So much for the weather.

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I managed to bring in the bubble wrap roll from my car today and that was it. Apparently its supposed to rain all weekend.

In other news, the site was down this morning. That was because, like a dumbass, I didn’t bother to check my GoDaddy account to see if the CC they were going to bill for auto-renew was a good one. Of course, it wasn’t. I needed to update my address too, and I went ahead and renewed the 4 other domains I have that were going to expire soon. So, a $10 renewal got turned into a $94 renewal. Argh.

Oct 23

Security Improvements

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Now that I’m on the Secteam at LW, its obviously got me thinking harder about implementing better security measures on this VPS. One thing I’ve already done is install CSF (ConfigServer Security & Firewall, available at http://configserver.com), and set LFD (the login failure daemon) to send me emails about detected security issues.

I also have Apache2/ModSecurity2 (with our latest ruleset), however I’m finding that I probably need to make a few other adjustments, such as enabling SuPhp and open_basedir, locking down permissions, and most importantly, keeping up with new versions of software (omg, WordPress 2.6.2 already?!).  These things I hope to accomplish very, very soon.